Gough Island: Nature Conservation

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to protect the native sea bird population on Gough Island.

Meg Munn: Official Report, 6 December 2007, Vol. 468, c. 10MC.
	Rats and mice have been identified as the main predators of seabirds on Gough Island. The Overseas Territories Environment Programme, a joint Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development funded programme, provided £54,954 for the period 2005-07 to the Tristan da Cunha Administration, with technical support being provided by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, to assess the potential for the eradication of these rodents from Gough Island.

Tobacco

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department has provided towards national tobacco strategies in each of the last five years.

Dawn Primarolo: The Department has provided the following funding to support the Government's national tobacco strategies set out as follows:
	The following table shows advertising expenditure on the dangers of smoking from 2003-04 to date.
	
		
			  Expenditure on education campaigns financial year  Tobacco control (£ million) 
			 2003-04 17.76 
			 2004-05 25.00 
			 2005-06 23.00 
			 2006-07 13.50 
			 2007-08 11.39 
		
	
	The Department awarded a grant of £2,670,000 to Cancer Research UK (CRUK) under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 to fund the charity's Light and Mild campaign in 2003-04. A further of £300,000 grant was made in 2006-07 for CRUK's media campaign on the harmful constituents of secondhand smoke.
	The Department awarded a grant of £5,000,000 to British Heart Foundation (BHF) under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 to fund the charity's media campaign in 2004-05 on heart disease caused by smoking. A further grant of £4,000,000 grant was made in 2005-06 to BHF for a media campaign highlighting the dangers of smoking and heart disease.
	In each year since 2003, £2 million has been funding allocated to the nationwide system of local tobacco alliances and the Regional Tobacco Policy Managers.
	
		
			  Financial year  Financial allocations to the national health service for stop smoking services (£ million) 
			 2003-04 41 
			 2004-05 46 
			 2005-06 51 
			 2006-07 56 
			 2007-08 56 
		
	
	The Department's grants to Action on Smoking Health (ASH) under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 are set out in the following table.
	
		
			  Financial year  Grants (£) 
			 2003-04 164,000 
			 2004-05 168,000 
			 2005-06 180,000 
			 2006-07 185,400 
			 2007-08 191,000 
		
	
	The Department's grants to the No Smoking Day (NSD) organisation are set out in the following table.
	
		
			  Financial year  Grants (£) 
			 2003-04 250,000 
			 2004-05 250,000 
			 2005-06 250,000 
			 2006-07 250,000 
			 2007-08 250,000 
		
	
	The Department's grants to QUIT (an organisation that provides support to smokers who want to quit smoking) under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 are set out in the following table.
	
		
			  Financial year  Grants (£) 
			 2002-03 10,000 
			 2003-04 20,000 
			 2004-05 25,000